• Comenius, Socrates 2003-04
• Comenius, Socrates 2004-05
• Survey
• Leaflet
• Spanish Exchange
• Letters
• Photos Gallery
• Presentation 1
• Presentation 2
• Presentation 3

3 year school project on National Stereotypes.

Participating Schools:

A Spanish school in Galicia (co-ordinating school)

A French school in Brittany

An Italian school

A school in Romania

Us

The Theme:

How do they see us? What are we like?

How do we see them? What are they like?

As part of the project we are going to Ortigueira, Galicia on a Spanish exchange with 11 of our pupils -13th March to 20th March.

Two teachers and 14 pupils will be with us from the 18th April for about a week. They have yet to confirm with me the departure date; probably the following Monday the 26th April.

Any other information you need, please ask. I would also appreciate any help or advice since I am new to this and due to the little time the other Language teachers have (due to their other commitments in school) I am pretty much having to do this on my own. I am particularly interested in ideas on opening it up to the rest of the school community.

Many Thanks

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

1. Which project activities have been completed during 2003-2004?

• Correspondence between pupils and teachers.
• Preparation and conduct of surveys.
• Analysis of surveys.
• Exposition of the results of survey.
• Project meeting in France (November 2004).
• Presentation to the community of the Comenius Project en France.

2. Which are the activities planned for the rest of the course?

• Exposition of the survey results.
• Selection of the 3 recurrent topics in the survey.
• Competition among pupils to select drawings for the themes.
• Realisation and publication of a leaflet about topics and counter topics.
• Project meeting in Ortigueira (Spain).
• Presentation to the community of the Comenius project in Spain.
• Realisation of a Web page.
• 'Language week.'

3. Type of activities for 2004-2005 and results

• Correspondence between pupils and teachers.
• Project meeting in France.
• Launch of project (2nd year: Natural, Historic and Cultural Heritage).
• Summary of data and information about our regions.
• Preparation of activities relating to the traditional and popular sports in our regions.
• Excursions to the more significant places.
• Analysis and treatment of the documentation gathered (texts, photos, drawings, posters ...).
• Project meetings (September: France, April: United Kingdom).
• - Exchange of materials;
• - Discussion about different experiences;
• - Presentation of the project to the community.
• Realisation of the CD.
• Realisation of the video.
• "Language Week" Exposition of all the different completed tasks.

Evaluation

Internal evaluation (self evaluation)

• Teachers' task: implications to the members of the Comenius Team and of the rest of the school community.
• Pupils: presentation and quality of tasks, interests, co-operative tasks.

External evaluation (community)

• Involvement of parents.
• Involvement of the rest of the community.
• Evaluation of the project partners
• Involvement of each of the partners.
• Fulfilment of the objectives.
• Realisation of all the proposed activities.
• Punctuality in posting all materials.
• Fluidity of communication.
• Quality of materials sent.
• Atmosphere of co-operation between partners.
• Dissemination of results.
• Expectations generated in the environment and benefits to the community.

Dissemination

Educational community:

• Periodic expositions at the centre.
• Articles in the school magazine.

Rest of the community:

• Presentation of the Comenius Project in each of the communities.
• Local and regional newspaper articles and in specialised magazines.
• Publication of leaflet about topics.
• Publication of a web page.
• Realisation of a CD.
• Realisation of the video.